While few sympathise with the cigarette giants (though your pension fund probably holds shares in them) there is an issue of liberty and choice here - set against that of public health, writes DOMINIC LAWSON.

Because of the scandalous delay in publishing the Chilcot Report, voters will go to the polls in ignorance of the parties' degree of blame for the most catastrophic foreign policy mistake of modern times.

In one brilliantly-mimicked spoof letter written by the late Lee Israel, she has the ageing playwright (pictured) question how his little fish has died - though he concedes that it 'could have been suicide'.